Any American alive today shares an intimate relationship with his or her same generational types of the past and the future. Each has shared and will share the same behaviors and attitudes, the same fears and child-rearing approaches, the same criticism and praise of other generational types. Each has seen and will see a spiritual awakening and a secular crisis in the same constellational position and has and will respond in the same characteristic manner.

The cyclical march of generations offers one important concept or lesson, and this is that each cohort group makes critical contributions to human development that keep a culture balanced over the long term.